Crystal Suen found hanged in hotel bathroom36 year old former Miss Asia 1999 contestant and Category III actress left a suicide note indicating that she was in debtIronically, she once portrayed Pauline Chen who leapt to her death in 2002

Brigitte Lin has reportedly decided her return will be with Wong Kar Wai in an adaption of 'The Eternal Yin Hsueh-yen' (aka The Eternal Snow Beauty)Filming won't begin until 2010 after Legend of Yip Man is completed, Tony Leung wishes to participatehttp://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2009-02/0 ... 781021.htmThe Eternal Snow Beauty (永遠的尹雪豔)The aging "Snow Beauty" (Yin Hsueh-yen) looks back on her days as the belle of Shanghai's Paramount ballroom; she is still the center of attention at upscale mahjong soirees she arranges at her Taipei home.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_People

Breathless Wins Top Prize in RotterdamTh 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) awarded actor-director YANG Ik-joon’s feature Breathless the top Tiger award, sharing the honors with Iran’s Be Calm and Count to Seven and Turkey’s Wrong Rosary. The fest handed out 3 VPRO Tiger awards to the winning trio, worth EUR 15,000 each.

Breathless had its International Premiere at IFFR after making its world premiere last October at Pusan. YANG both wrote the screenplay and took the lead role in this film about a tough, course-mouthed gangster’s relationship with a precocious high school girl. The HD feature received funding support from KOFIC and Pusan’s Asian Cinema Fund.

YANG’s directing debut was praised by the IFFR jury as "a powerfully rendered and acted film with a keen sense of reality in its portrayal of a situation that has been seldom seen in the cinema." Breathless is to be released in Korea this April. International sales are being handled by Showbox/Mediaplex Inc.

This year’s Tiger jury included PARK Ki-yong, head of KOFIC’s Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) and director of the features Motel Cactus (1997) and Camel(s) (2001). Previous Korean winners of the Tiger are HONG Sang-soo’s The Day When a Pig Fell into the Well (1996) and PARK Chan-ok’s Jealousy is My Middle Name (2002).Nigel D’Sa (KOFIC)